mesa

See also: Mesa, mésá, mesá, mėsa, and meša

English

Etymology

First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: [māʹsə], IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.sə/

Noun

mesa (plural mesas)

1. Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges

   A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado.

   • 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].

Derived terms

• Mesa County

Related terms

• potrero
• butte
• tuya

Translations

flat area of land

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臺地 (zh), 台地 (zh) (táidì)

• Esperanto: altebenaĵo
• Finnish: ylätasanko, pöytävuori (fi)
• German: Tafelberg (de) m
• Hebrew: הַר שֻׁלְחָן‎‎ (he) m (har shulrán)
• Hungarian: fennsík (hu)
• Italian: altopiano (it) m

• Navajo: dah azką́
• Norwegian: platå n
• Russian: столова́я гора́ (ru) f (stolovája gorá)
• Spanish: mesa (es)
• Tagalog: talampas
• Turkish: masa dağı
• Vietnamese: núi mặt bàn

Anagrams

• ASME, MSAE, Same, eams, mase, meas, same, seam

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Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈme.sa]
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa f (plural meses)

1. table

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Chamicuro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa.

Noun

mesa

1. table

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Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish mesa (“table”).

Noun

mesa

1. table

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Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa

Noun

mesa

1. table

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mesa, from Vulgar Latin *mēsa from Latin mēnsa.

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table
2. all items set on a table for a meal
3. board; directors of an organization

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Gothic

Romanization

mēsa

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐍃𐌰

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Kituba

Etymology

From Spanish mesa or Portuguese mesa.

Noun

mesa

1. table

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Latvian

Noun

mesa f (4 declension)

1. (Christianity) mass

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀫𑁂𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• मेस (Devanagari script)
• মেস (Bengali script)
• මෙස (Sinhalese script)
• မေသ (Burmese script)
• เมส (Thai script)
• ᨾᩮᩈ (Tai Tham script)
• មេស (Khmer script)

Noun

mesa m

1. ram

Declension

Declension table of "mesa" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	meso	mesā
Accusative (second)	mesaṃ	mese
Instrumental (third)	mesena	mesehi or mesebhi
Dative (fourth)	mesassa or mesāya or mesatthaṃ	mesānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	mesasmā or mesamhā or mesā	mesehi or mesebhi
Genitive (sixth)	mesassa	mesānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	mesasmiṃ or mesamhi or mese	mesesu
Vocative (calling)	mesa	mesā

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Portuguese

mesa

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mesa (“table”), from Vulgar Latin *mēsa, from Latin mēnsa (“table”).

Cognate with Galician mesa, Spanish mesa, French moise, Italian mensa and Romanian masă.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈme.zɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈme.za/, /ˈme.zɐ/
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table (item of furniture)

   José, põe a mesa, por favor.

   José, please set the table.

2. table (used as a reference)
   • 2015, Neil Gaiman, Os filhos de Anansi, Editora Intrinseca, →ISBN, page 6:

     Cumprimentou-as tocando a aba do chapéu — pois ele usava chapéu, um fedora verde imaculado, além de luvas cor de lima —, e em seguida caminhou até a mesa onde estavam as mulheres, que deram risada.

3. meal, food

   Portugal tem boa mesa e bom vinho.

   Portugal has good food and good wine.

4. (geography) mesa
5. board (a committee)

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:mesa.

Descendants

• Javanese: méja
• Kadiwéu: nameeja
• Kaingang: mẽja
• Kituba: mesa
• Lingala: mésá
• Luganda: mmeeza

• Malay: meja
  • Indonesian: meja
• Malayalam: മേശ (mēśa)
• Sinhalese: මේසය (mēsaya)
• Swahili: meza
• Tamil: மேசை (mēcai)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mēsa, from Latin mēnsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme̞sa/
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa f (plural mesas)

1. table
2. mesa

Derived terms

(diminutive mesilla or mesita)

Related terms

• mesero

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish mesa (“table”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛsa]
• Hyphenation: me‧sa

Noun

mesa

1. table

Synonyms

• lamesa (often used interchangeably with mesa)

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Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mesa, from Latin mensa. Compare Highland Puebla Nahuatl me̱saj, Tetelcingo Nahuatl miesa.

Noun

mesa

1. Table.

References

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006), “Tlen ticuih itich in cocina”, in Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán‎^[2], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 16